While the focus since the announcement on Tuesday has been on how the ST will follow the OT I hope that the PT will not be entirely dismissed in the new films. I'm an OT fan first but love the PT and hope that there will be some connection in Episodes VII, VIII and IX to Episodes I, II and III.

I wondered if considering he has been fit enough to film for The Hobbit whether Christopher Lee could have a small part in Episode VII as some sort of descendent of Count Dooku? Pure speculation but it would be a nice way of tying the two trilogies.

In terms of being more modern films asthetically speaking, yes I think they will be more like the PT than the OT, and there will probably be species among many other elements, which appeared in the PT, in the ST.